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Marvel’s Black Panther
The 2016 San Diego Comic-Con was a memorable moment for independent researcher and writer Todd Steven Burroughs. Burroughs begins Marvel’s Black Panther: A Comic Bo...
100 Bestselling Authors, New Books, and More: October 2016 eNewsletter
Our Top 100, All-time, Bestselling Authors We are excited to present our regularly updated list of our top 100, all-time, bestselling authors. This list of bestselling a...
Great Books, Events, Films & More - October 2015 eNewsletter
AALBC.com’s Best Selling Books — July/August 2015 We just published our ten best selling fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books for the period July 1 through ...
Dwayne McDuffie
Dwayne McDuffie Dwayne McDuffie (February 20, 1962 – February 21, 2011) was a comic and television writer. He was known for creating the animated television ser...
The City Of Refuge [New And Expanded Edition]: The Collected Stories Of Rudolph Fisher
The City Of Refuge [New And Expanded Edition]: The Collected Stories Of Rudolph Fisher Rudolph Fisher One of the premier writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Rudolph Fisher...
Why Did The City Sun [1984–1996] Matter?
Editors’s Note: Check out Dawkins’ book about The City Sun’s publisher Andrew W. Cooper A decade ago in fall 1996, The City Sun set, ye...
Right Where I Left You
Right Where I Left You Julian Winters “Some books are downright fun, and Right Where I Left You is one … Winters sends a quiet but important message that queer Black ...
New People
New People Danzy Senna Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND TIME MAGAZINENamed A 2017 BEST SUMMER READ BYVogue • Elle • Harpe...
AALBC.com eNewsletter – November 30th 2012 – Issue #196
AALBC.com would like to thank all of you for being loyal readers of our eNewsletter. We are proud to have continuously published this eNewsletter for over 15 years --...
Bestsellers Lists, Authors, New Books & More - June 2015
Read Our eNewsletter Archives Subscribe to Receive Highlights of Our eNewsletter and More on Your Kindle Multi-Title Authors Find Success on Spring ...
Loving Day: A Novel
Loving Day: A Novel Mat Johnson Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Men’s Journal • The Denver Post ̶...
Exercise Your Mind With a Good Book – July 29, 2014 eNewsletter
You may receive this eNewsletter directly in your email-box by subscribing. It may also be read on your Kindle ebook reader, or any device by downloading a PDF version....
Jennifer Cruté
Jennifer Cruté Jennifer Cruté started writing comics in 2003. She is featured in a Current TV segment about women in comics called "KAPOW! The New Comic Boo...
Furious Cool: Richard Pryor And The World That Made Him
Furious Cool: Richard Pryor And The World That Made Him David Henry and Joe Henry “Addictively readable … Someday, when fewer people know Richard Pryor’s name, Furi...
Frederick Joseph
Frederick Joseph Frederick Joseph is an award-winning marketing professional, media representation advocate, and writer who was recently selected for the Forbes 30 Under ...
Ken Burns Interviewed (April 2013).
Legendary Filmmaker Discusses His Latest Documentary Photo Credit dbking Ken Burns has been making films for more than thirty years. Since the Academy Award-no...
AALBC.com eNewsletter - August 1st 2012 - #193
Subscribe to this eNewsletter Read our eNewsletter Archives Read Our eNewsletter on Your Kindle Help AALBC.com support our literary legacy. If you find somethi...
The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey Through the Art and Craft of Humor
The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey Through the Art and Craft of Humor Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key Authors Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key build on the popularity...
Negrophobia: An Urban Parable
Negrophobia: An Urban Parable Darius James "In this social-media era, when we are more intent than ever on isolating things that offend and outrage, Negrophobia revels in...
I Am Gandhi: A Graphic Biography of a Hero
I Am Gandhi: A Graphic Biography of a Hero Brad Meltzer Twenty-five exceptional comic book creators join forces to share the heroic story of Gandhi in this inspiring grap...
Cosbyology: Essays and Observations From the Doctor of Comedy
Cosbyology: Essays and Observations From the Doctor of Comedy Bill Cosby Description: Returning to his early days of comedy, the comic genius and #1 New York Times bests...
Zoe Johnson
Zoe Johnson Zoe Johnson loves to draw. More importantly, Zoe loves to draw comic strips. At 8 years old she has already created two memorable characters J...
God Carlos
God Carlos Anthony C. Winkler A Finalist for the 2014 Townsend Prize for Fiction!God Carlos has been long-listed for the OMC Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in Trini...
Marlon Wayans “A Haunted House” Interview (2013)
Marlon Wayans “A Haunted House” Interview Multi-talented Marlon Wayans graduated from the prestigious High School of Performing Arts in New York and Howard Uni...
Ray Billingsley
Ray Billingsley Ray Billingsley (born July 25, 1957) is the creator of “Curtis”. Billingsley draws from real life, and the strip has the fresh quality of si...
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays samantha irby A New York Times Critics Top Book of 2017 "The second book of essays from this frank and madly funny blogger…. ...
7 Award Winning Books You Will Definitely Enjoy
[caption id="attachment_2853" align="alignright" width="140"] Ernest J. Gaines[/caption] The following seven books are all winners of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Li...
St. Martin's Press - Backlist
St. Martin's New Releases | Writer's Home | AALBC.com Home St. Martin's Press � 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 � 212-674-5151 I Know ...
Black Books Galore! AALBC.com's November 2016 eNewsletter
Picador USA – Our eNewsletter Sponsor for November Read one of the year’s most highly lauded – and highly provocative – books, now the first American winner of...
Hell of a Book: A Novel
Hell of a Book: A Novel Jason Mott Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Finalist, 2022 Chautauqua Prize Finalist, Wil...
Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb
Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb Veronica Chambers Veronica Chambers is the award-winning author of many books for children and adults, including Mama’s Girl and Celia Cruz, ...
Tephlon Funk!
Tephlon Funk! Stephane Metayer Tephlon Funk! is more than a comic, it’s a cultural movement! Writer Stephane Metayer with artists David Tako and Nicolas Safe bring an a...
Terry Crews - The “Blended” Interview (2014)
Terry Crews - The “Blended” Interview Since retiring from the NFL, Terry Crews has traded in his helmet and cleats to pursue an acting career while also beco...
AALBC.com eNewsletter – October 11th 2012 – Issue #195
Subscribe to this eNewsletter Read our eNewsletter Archives Read Our eNewsletter on Your Kindle By Troy Johnson Authors You Should Know Countée Porter Cullen http...
Devil in Silver
Devil in Silver Victor Lavalle New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one. “A dizzying high-wire act.” — The Was...
Augments of Change
Augments of Change Kelvin Christopher James Kelvin Christopher James uses a panoramic canvas for this absolutely entertaining and slyly informative novel that addresses t...
The Notebooks
The Notebooks Jean-Michel Basquiat Brooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure in the New York art scene...
The Cocaine Chronicles
The Cocaine Chronicles Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalon "The best stories in The Cocaine Chronicles … are equal to the best fiction being written today."—New York J...
Eric Payne
Eric Payne Eric Payne began writing at the age of 7 when he wrote, produced and co-directed a play based on Charlie Brown and the Peanuts comic strip for his 2nd-grade cl...
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
Sharks in the Time of Saviors Kawai Strong Washburn WINNER OF THE 2020 PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT NOVEL. One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2020. A finalist ...
Omari Hardwick - The "Kick-Ass" Interview
Born in savannah, Georgia on January 9, 1974, Omari Hardwick was the second of four children blessing the union of Clifford and Joyce Hardwick. The family moved...
March Book One
March Book One John Lewis and Andrew Aydin Congressman John Lewis is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and ...
Mike Epps - The Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins Interview
Mike Epps was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on November 18, 1970, but raised in Crenshaw along with nine siblings by his single mom. Every summer,...
Tina McElroy Ansa
Tina McElroy Ansa Tina McElroy Ansa (November 18, 1949 – September 10, 2024) stories and essays have appeared in several anthologies. She lived with her husband, Jo...
Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It
Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It Charlamagne Tha God Instant New York Times Bestseller Charlamagne Tha God—the self-proclaimed “Prince of Pis...
Saxophone Colossus
In the history and world of jazz, there is a singular group of adventurers, innovators, pioneers, and mavericks. Aidan Levy's mammoth biography of jazz icon Sonny Rol...
Annie
Annie (2014) In Theaters: Dec 19, 2014 Wide Rated PG for mild epithets and rude humor Running time: 118 minutes Distributor: Columbia Pictures PG (for some mild l...
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man
“I want every woman who truly wants a solid relationship to forget everything she’s been taught about men erase the myths, the heresy, every...
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man
“I want every woman who truly wants a solid relationship to forget everything she’s been taught about men erase the myths, the heresy, ev...
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man
“I want every woman who truly wants a solid relationship to forget everything she’s been taught about men erase the myths, the heresy, ev...
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man
“I want every woman who truly wants a solid relationship to forget everything she’s been taught about men erase the myths, the heresy, ev...
I Am Jesse Owens
I Am Jesse Owens Brad Meltzer Just in time for the Summer Olympics, this 33rd book in the New York Times bestselling biography series for ages 5 to 9 features one of the ...
Artistic Activism of Elombe Brath
Artistic Activism of Elombe Brath Elombe Brath and Thomas Aiello Collected for the first time, an exploration of the artwork and commentary of a forgotten activist during...
The Sellout
The Sellout Paul Beatty The Sellout, won the Man Booker Prize on October 25, 2016. Paul Beatty is the first American to win the award. The Sellout is also: Winner o...
Mr. Loverman
Mr. Loverman Bernardine Evaristo Winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction"Evaristo’s confident control of the language, her vibrant use of humor, rhythm and p...
Mission Accomplished: Wicked Cartoons By America’s Most Wanted Political Cartoonist
Mission Accomplished: Wicked Cartoons By America’s Most Wanted Political Cartoonist Khalil Bendib n an increasingly Manichean geopolitical world, Bendib happens to be b...
Shaft
Shaft Release in: 2000 Director: John Singleton Genre: Action, Crime Toni Collette - Diane Palmieri Dan Hedaya - Jack Rosel...
Zetta Brown: Scotland’s Zane Hits Big in Publishing World
The international publishing world is taking notice off Zetta Brown’s red hot L-L Publications with its line of unorthodox commercial books. Based in S...
Brandon McCalla
Brandon McCalla Brandon Dewitt McCalla was born in Brooklyn New York. He was always an intense reader starting with Marvel Comic books, but a copy of J.R.R.Tolkien’s Th...
Eric Pete
Eric Pete Eric Pete was born in Seattle, WA. Eric served in the US Army and is a graduate of McNeese State University as well as a member of Delta Sigma Pi Profession...
Dawud Anyabwile
Dawud Anyabwile Dawud Anyabwile is an Emmy Award winning artist, illustrator and co-creator of the groundbreaking Comic Book Series, Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline. A...
Darrin Bell
Darrin Bell Darrin Bell is a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, author, and illustrator based in Los Angeles, California. He is best known for his editorial cartoons, inc...
12 Years a Slave
Chiwetel Ejiofor Stars in Adaptation of Solomon Northup’s Memoir In Theaters: Oct 18, 2013 Limited November 1, 2013 Wide Rated R for violence, torture, se...
The Best Man Holiday
Seasonal Sequel Finds Reunited BFFs Romancing and Reminiscing The Best Man Holiday In Theaters: Nov 15, 2013 Wide Rated R for profanity, sexuality, ethnic slurs ...
In the Mix
Usher Moonlights as Mafia Bodyguard in Cross-Cultural Romance In the Mix Rated PG-13 for sex, expletives and violence. Running time: 97 minutes Distributor: Lions Ga...
Love Don’t Come Easy
Boy looks for girl. Boy finds girl. Boy loses girl. Boy looks for another girl. J.T. Smith puts a fresh spin on an old formula in his highly entertaining debut novel, L...
Top Five
Top Five In Theaters: Dec 12, 2014 Wide R (for strong sexual content, nudity, crude humor, language throughout and some drug use) Running time: 1 hr. 41 min. Dist...
The Family Mansion
The Family Mansion Anthony C. Winkler "The brutalities of Jamaica’s past and the myriad social and cultural contradictions that contributed to it are conveyed with a ge...
Katrina’s Ghost: The Third Candorville Collection
Katrina’s Ghost: The Third Candorville Collection Darrin Bell The 3rd collection of Darrin Bell’s comic strip "Candorville," which runs in major newspapers ...
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Trevor Noah #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man...
More Poetry!/Less Jam!
More Poetry!/Less Jam! by Tara Betts Bruce George’s outgoing voicemail message at Phat Farm states "Don’t leave a message unless it’s absolute...
Bow Wow - The "Lottery Ticket" Interview
Born Shad Gregory Moss in Columbus, Ohio on March 9, 1987. Bow Wow was a precocious kid who started rhyming as a toddler, and first appeared on stage at the ag...
Everywhere You Don’t Belong
Everywhere You Don’t Belong Gabriel Bump “A comically dark coming-of-age story about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, but it’s also social commentary at its...
Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography
The age of multitasking needs better narrative history. It must be absolutely factual, immediately accessible, smart, and brilliantly fun. Enter Andrew Helfer, the...
Caribbean Books You Should Know
By Joanne C. Hillhouse "I come from Antigua and Barbuda in the Caribbean. I write stories of and from the Caribbean. My first book was The Boy from Willow Bend ...
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts Rebecca Hall A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and The Washington Post Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginativ...
AALBC.com’s eNewsletter – October 28, 2014
You may receive this eNewsletter directly in your email-box by subscribing. It may also be read on your Kindle ebook reader, or any device by downloading a PDF version. ...
Lessons Before Dying Vol. 1 : Relationships
Lessons Before Dying Vol. 1 : Relationships Leonard Jenkins II In this novel, Lessons Before Dying, the lives of five very powerful and influential black men unfold in...
Valjeanne Jeffers Interview
Valjeanne Jeffers is a graduate of Spelman College and North Carolina Central University, and a member of the Carolina African American Writer’s Collecti...
Wanda Sykes - The "Over the Hedge" Interview
Wanda Sykes Still photographs of "Over the Hedge" The Over the Hedge Interview with Kam Williams Born on March 7, 1964 in Portsmouth, Virginia, Wanda Sykes was r...
Class ACT A Graphic Novel
Class ACT A Graphic Novel Jerry Craft New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft returns with Class Act, a companion book to New Kid, the 2020 Newbery Medal, Coretta S...
J vs. K
J vs. K Kwame Alexander and Jerry Craft Created by real-life rivals and #1 New York Times bestselling authors Kwame Alexander and Jerry Craft, this hilarious illustrated ...
Queenie: Godmother of Harlem
Queenie: Godmother of Harlem Aurelie Levy Queenie: Godmother of Harlem is a historical graphic novel inspired by the life of legendary mobster Stephanie Saint-Clair, the ...
Dork Diaries 14: Tales from a Not-So-Best Friend Forever
Dork Diaries 14: Tales from a Not-So-Best Friend Forever Rachel Renée Russell Nikki Maxwell’s summer is packed with drama in this fourteenth installment of the #1 New ...
The Misadventures of Max Crumbly 3: Masters of Mischief
The Misadventures of Max Crumbly 3: Masters of Mischief Rachel Renée Russell From #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries author Rachel Renée Russell comes the...
Dork Diaries 12: Tales from a Not-So-Secret Crush Catastrophe
Dork Diaries 12: Tales from a Not-So-Secret Crush Catastrophe Rachel Renée Russell Nikki Maxwell’s adventures continue in the twelfth installment in the blockbuster #1...
I Am George Washington
I Am George Washington Brad Meltzer We can all be heroes. That’s the inspiring message of this New York Times Bestselling picture book biography series from historian a...
Incognegro
Incognegro Mat Johnson Writer Mat Johnson, winner of the prestigious Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction, constructs a fearless graphic novel that is both a pag...
Jake the Fake Goes for Laughs
In general, kids enjoy a little something funny and wacky in the books they read to keep them interested until the very end. There is no way to escape from an attack of t...
Remembering Glenn Thompson
Born in Harlem and raised in Brooklyn, Glenn Thompson [September 24, 1940 – September 7, 2001] left the U. S. as a young man and traveled extensively througho...
Maybe an Artist, a Graphic Memoir
Maybe an Artist, a Graphic Memoir Liz Montague A heartfelt and funny graphic novel memoir from one of the first Black female cartoonists to be published in the New Yorker...
Dear Dad: Growing Up with a Parent in Prison — And How We Stayed Connected
Dear Dad: Growing Up with a Parent in Prison — And How We Stayed Connected Jay Jay Patton and Antoine Patton A stunning graphic novel memoir about growing up with an in...
MS Davis: A Graphic Biography
MS Davis: A Graphic Biography Sybille Titeux de la Croix In this follow-up to their New York Times bestselling graphic biography of Muhammad Ali, the acclaimed French wri...
Dreamer
Dreamer Akim Aliu and Greg Anderson Elysee Dreamer, a graphic novel memoir by professional athlete and activist Akim Aliu about his life growing up in Ukraine and Canada,...
Shotgun Seamstress: An Anthology
Shotgun Seamstress: An Anthology Osa Atoe A cut & paste celebration of Black punk and outsider identity, this is the only complete collection of the fanzine Shotgun Seams...
Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence
Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence Joel Christian Gill A New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2020 YALSA 2021 Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2021 Cartoonists Pri...
Big Black: Stand at Attica
Big Black: Stand at Attica Frank Smith A graphic novel memoir from Frank "Big Black" Smith, a prisoner at Attica State Prison in 1971, whose rebellion against the injusti...
I Am Neil Armstrong
I Am Neil Armstrong Brad Meltzer Neil Armstrong’s journey to the moon is the focus of the fifteenth picture book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies...
March: 30 Postcards to Make Change and Good Trouble
March: 30 Postcards to Make Change and Good Trouble Marcus Guillory These postcards showcase the words and artwork of MARCH, the New York Times bestseller about the life ...
March (Trilogy Slipcase Set)
March (Trilogy Slipcase Set) John Lewis and Andrew Aydin Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.Discover the inside story of the Civil Rights M...